Carey, Medina & Lisberger. Instructive signals for motor learning from visual area MT. Nature Neurosci. 8: 813-819, 2005.

Steve Lisberger is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Professor of Physiology, the Director of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, and a co-Director of the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology. He received his BA in Mathematics from Cornell in 1971, and his PhD in Physiology from the University of Washington in 1976. After completing postdoctoral work at the NIH, he has been at UCSF since 1981.

Our laboratory uses computational, theoretical, and experimental methods to ask how the brain generates and controls eye movements. We are interested in questions about how what we see is used to guide our movements, and how movement is learned. Our research accomplishments include discovering the sites of learning for a simple eye movement reflex, the "vestibulo-ocular reflex", and development of an understanding of many aspects of how the brain generates and learns smooth pursuit eye movements.

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